A message to current and potential "Debtor Talk. net" users.

The "Debtor Talk" discussion board is undergoing a "makeover" to make it more accessable and useful to everyone. Here are just a few of the most important changes that have been made so far:

As part of this process, we have reduced the number of categories and forums dealing with credit repair resources and/or discussions to nine:

1.) Three for source documents under the "Resources" category (read-only): Case Law, Statute Law, and Other Resources (not case or statute law)

2.) Two forums under the category "Credit Repair Discussions" to discuss topics or questions of concern, including discussion about the source documents (cross-linking to the source document when appropriate).

3.) Two forums dealing with how to improve one's credit rating post-repair under the category "Credit Restoration". Note the forums here deal with budgeting and savings and investments as well as obtaining new credit.

4.) A forum for Archived posts (generally inactive posts over 120 days old). This is to "discourage" reviving "zombie" posts by encouraging new threads on topic, a good idea since the credit repair world-and law--changes all of the time and updating material is essential and difficult to do well if old information/posts are used to do it. However, since the information is normally still of use and/or interest, we have chosen to leave these "zombie" posts in an "open" Archive rather than remove them.

We will also be adding Tags to the posts as time allows, both in the SMF Tags function (accessed by the "Tags" tab at the top of the index page and at the bottom of the threads (once they have been added). We have also added a function to add tags through Google--Googletags--accessed by the "Googletagged" tab at the top of the index page. (There are none as yet in Googletags, but there soon will be.)

There is also a search function available through a form at the top of each thread in addition to one on the Index page (this one searches the entire board).

A note we need to make: If you have bookmarked/linked to a DT thread in the past, you WILL need to update your bookmarks now and in the future (some threads might be relocated into other forums as time allows). We realize this is inconvenient (we need to do this ourselves in our individual user capacities, too), but is unavoidable given the limited capacity of SMF to automatically redirect an old link--limited like "none we know of".

We are checking the SMF site to see if there is a Mod existing that addresses this problem. If anyone out there knows how to fix the issue--and can tell someone who is far from expert at dealing with "raw" code how to make the modification without totally crashing the board--we would like to hear from you, either by e-mail @ rottwelr@debtortalk.net and/or debtortalk@gmail.com or by using the "Contact" form at "Debtor Talk" forums.